This is Jennifer Gonzalez welcoming you to episode 33 of the Cult of Pedagogy Podcast.

In this episode, I'm going to share five powerful ways you can save time as a teacher.

One of the main reasons I ended up leaving full-time teaching was time.

I was a language arts teacher and I regularly brought home about two to three hours of work

every night. I also spent plenty of time on the weekends going into school letting myself into

those dark hallways and just locking myself in the classroom for hours to try to get caught up

for the week. I knew that when it was time for me to start a family that it was going to be much,

much harder to maintain that schedule. And so once we did have kids, I decided to stay home full

time. I was lucky enough to get a university job part-time for a couple of years and now I run a

website and so my schedule is just a lot more flexible. And anytime anybody asks if I plan to go

back to full-time teaching, I always have to consider that piece. I mean first of all, I would

definitely have to stop what I'm doing now completely. But I also think is it even possible to sustain or

to maintain that kind of a schedule with three kids. I've got an eight-year-old, a nine-year-old,

and an 11-year-old and I just can't see how I could possibly keep all those things up. But a lot

of teachers do it. A lot of teachers are balancing teaching and a family. Some are caring for

aging parents or they are working another part-time job or they're going to grad school. There are

plenty of teachers who are balancing the demands of teaching with other things. But my real question

is are they really balancing it or are they just juggling or are they just cutting a lot of

corners and multitasking and sacrificing things like sleep and exercise and their health in order to

meet the demands of teaching. And so time I know has been an issue for teachers just forever. In

surveys that I've done of my readers, pretty much the number one problem they have is just not enough

time. Not enough time to do the job well. And I've never had an answer for that honestly. I can

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